§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what information his Department has collected on the number of women admitted to hospital in Scotland because of alcoholism in the past 20 years.
§ Mr. John MacKay[pursuant to his reply, 31 March 1983, c. 233]: Since 1965 my Department has received statistics about the number of women admitted to hospitals in Scotland with a diagnosis of alcoholism or alcoholic psychosis in each of the following years:
Year Number of admissions 1965 443 1970 621 1975 1,180 1978 1,312 1979 1,278 1980 1,378
National Health Service Staff—Scotland 1981 Staff group Total staff* Percentage male Percentage female Average weekly earnings—male Average weekly earnings—female Medical and dental† 5,971.0 73.8 26.2 ‡ ‡ General medical and general dental practitioners ║4,67.4 81.7 18.3 ‡ ‡ Nursing 61,125.5 8.4 91.6 123.91 91.15 Scientific and professions supplementary to medicine 4,016.0 19.8 80.2 165.90 102.36 Technical and works 5,175.7 50.9 49.1 161.97 89.78 Administrative and clerical 13,628.8 17.8 82.2 152.31 76.10 Ancillary 27,348.4 25.1 74.9 99.39 57.62 Tradesmen 2,831.6 99.8 0.2 133.12 ‡ Pharmacists and opticians 465.6 39.1 60.9 186.96 146.36 Ambulancemen 1,645.0 96.2 3.8 ‡ ‡ Notes * Whole-time equivalents at 30 September 1981. † Excluding general practitioners and general dental practitioners. ‡ Average weekly earnings not available without extensive search and calculation. ║ Overall numbers of general medical practitioners and general dental practitioners.